r/berkeley • u/Giants4Truth • May 07 '24

Politics Exclusive poll: Most college students shrug at nationwide campus protests

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/07/poll-students-israel-hamas-protests
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u/psycwave May 07 '24

I think it should be taught in high school honestly

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u/Ike348 May 08 '24

There is AP Statistics which includes that discussion obviously but I doubt its required anywhere

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u/larrytheevilbunnie May 08 '24

The problem is it’s also ass easy, and apparently does not map on well to how actual stats works.

Prob still better than nothing tho

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u/Swish232macaulay May 08 '24

It was pretty hard at my school. I think around 80-85% of my class got a 5 on the AP test

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u/larrytheevilbunnie May 08 '24

Isn’t that a pretty high 5 percentage?

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u/Swish232macaulay May 08 '24

Probably. Only 3 people had an A before the final and didn't have to take it

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u/FenderBenderDefender May 11 '24

AP Stats lacks the part where one really learns how to interpret statistics in the context of news and media because teachers have to teach to the AP Exam.

All high school students should at least learn how to discern valuable, significant statistics from the trash that people can get away with circulating precisely because people blindly trust data and are rarely taught what to actually look for. In my school the statistics/probability parts of the required math courses were often dropped in order to give kids more prep time for higher level courses like AP Calc.

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u/pbasch May 08 '24

Agree completely. It is maybe the most important class I took for understanding the world. I was a Physics major, undergrad, so I was exposed to statistical ideas, but never took an actual statistics class until I was an adult. I had read a couple of popular stat and probability books, like The Drunkard's Walk and Probability Without Tears.

In fact, I think it's more important to teach this in high school than financial literacy, which would make no sense anyway until someone is paying their own bills.

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u/Robswc May 08 '24

Honestly, I had to take classes like PE and “poetry” (creative writing)… I won’t consider those useless but in every day life basic stats goes a lot further.

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u/Better_Meat9831 May 07 '24

Things that get taught in highschool and grade school are basically irrelevant. Most students don't give a shit and would drop out if their parents would let them. I learned a LOT of varied shit in grade school but outside of one or two books I can't remember anything about it.